WiMAX delivers the Web similar to Wi-Fi, but covers wide areas like a cellphone tower. While the range of a Wi-Fi router is measured in yards – enough to blanket a house or office – WiMAX can ...

There's been a lot of buzz about WiMax as Sprint Nextel rolls out its first network to use the 4G wireless technology. But what exactly is it? This FAQ will help you sort it out. Marguerite ...

It’s not even universally available in the U.S. yet, and the race is already well underway to replace it. WiMAX, the 4G network technology that counts Sprint and Intel among its boosters, has a head ...

2009 will not be the year 4G technologies go mainstream, according to industry experts, who also mostly agree WiMax's lead over cellular broadband will be short-lived, eventually being edged out ...

While 802.16e-2005 is officially an “extension” of 802.16-2004, “mobile WiMAX extends fixed WiMAX so far that you can’t really use your fixed infrastructure for mobile WiMAX,” says Gemma ...

But when decision time came last December, the city chose WiMAX, the 802.16 standard for wireless broadband. It was an eleventh-hour verdict, but when Grand Rapids officials toured three U.S. cities ...

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today, Nokia officially launched the N810 internet tablet, a long-rumored update to its popular N800 tablet. The new tablet is clearly an evolutionary step ...

When Intel closed its WiMax office in Taiwan a year ago, the company professed confidence that there was still a future for the technology as an alternative to LTE for superfast mobile internet ...

Sprint says that devices that run on both its WiMAX and 3G networks will continue to work on 3G once WIMAX is shut down, though if you are still clinging on to an old WiMAX device, it’s probably ...

Australia is in some ways a testbed for WiMax, following an announcement earlier this year that the Howard government was to put some US$884 million (AU$1 billion) into a scheme to cover Australia ...

Clearwire has released a new USB stick called the Clear Stick Atlas, which lets you connect to the company’s WiMAX network without installing any software. Clearwire has released a new USB stick ...

NYC, get ready for 4G. Today Sprint announced that its 4G WiMax network has arrived in all five boroughs of New York City, bringing the fastest data network to more than 8 million new customers.